US Distance / Sponsor News

• Nick Symmonds Wrote A Book And Reveals All Including Recreational Drug Use, Issues With USATF/Nike And “Sex On The Circuit” Symmonds: “The primary goal is just telling the story and saying the things publicly that I’ve maybe told people over a beer in the past. … I don’t pull punches, and there are going to be some punches thrown in this book.”
  *MB: Symmonds details hookups in book
• Kara Goucher Still A Free Agent And Shopping Around For Potential New Sponsor She said it’s down to 5 companies.”I’m becoming less and less concerned with dollar figure and more and more concerned with if they are someone that fits into my belief system.”
• Lukas Verzbicas Signs With New Balance His first competition under the new sponsor will be the Clermont Pan American Cup on March 1.
• Bernard Lagat Named USATF Athlete Of The Week For Taking Down 33-Year-Old US 2,000m Record Lagat ran 4:54.7.

Lauryn Williams Makes Olympic History In Sochi

• Lauryn Williams Makes Olympic History In Sochi By Becoming The First Track Gold Medalist To Medal At The Winter Games She and driver Elana Meyers took home the silver medal behind a team from Canada. Williams becomes just the fourth person in history to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. The team of former shot putter Aja Evans and Cornell star heptathlete Jamie Greubel got the bronze.
  *RW Article
• USA Today: Lolo Jones Misses Medal But Celebrates With Teammates Jones and her sled partner finished 11th.
• Canada’s Gold Medal Winning Bobsled Team Including Former Sprinter Heather Moyse She competed for the University of Waterloo and is still 3rd all-time on their 60m list.
• Lauryn Williams Has No Idea Where She Put Her Olympic Medals She has two medals from track, but isn’t sure where they are and says, “I think they’re at my mom’s house.”

Tracksters Dominated 1st Day of Women’s Bobsled

• Sled Powered By Lauryn Williams Leads Bobsled After Day 1 And Is Poised For Gold As Former Cornell Heptathlon Star Jamie Greubel Sits In Third
• Williams Poised To Make History
• Meet The “Blonde Dragon” – Cornell Heptathlon School Record Holder Jamie Greubel She almost made the 2010 Games as a pusher; now she’s a driver.
• Greubel’s Sled Is Pushed By Former Illinois Track Star Aja Evans Evans is quite an athlete. Top five in the NCAA shot put, she also ran 7.63 for 60m.
• Another Profile Of Former Cornell Heptathlon Star Jamie Greubel
• Usain Bolt Says He’s Going To Try Out For 2018 Winter Games (As A Joke, We Think)

• Interesting: A Look At Some Of The Worst Winter And Summer Olympians In History Includes a thrower from the very first modern Olympics.
• Another Japan Road Race Snowed Out: Fukaya City Half Marathon Cancelled Due To Impossibility Of Clearing Course

Distance News

• Ken Goe Profiles Brooks Beasts TC In Oregonian Brooks Steps Up To Challenge Nike’s Hold On Northwest’s Elite Running Scene
• Recommended Read: Renato Canova Reveals All Of The Key Workouts For Florence Kiplagat During The Last Month, Leading Uo To Her 13.1 WRecord How about 3k (9:20), 2 x 2k (6:07), 5 x 1k (sub-3:00)? Very impressive. Canova adds more insight by discussing the workout on the message board. Canova post #1. Canova post #2.
• Day 2 Of Russian Champs: Anna Shchagina Wins 800 In PR Of 2:01.29, Kseniya Ryzhov Improves 400m World Lead To 51.03 Schagina may be the Russian woman to watch this winter as she’s expected to double back in the 1,500. Stepan Poistogov, the husband of Olympic 800m bronze medallist Yekaterina Poistogova, won the men’s 800 in a 1:46.53 PR. *Day 1 Recap
• Justice Is Served 12 Years Later: Since Eddy H Admitted To EPO Usage, Dave Olds Was Given Medal For 2002 USA Masters XC Title In Boulder
• Daily Relay’s Collegiate Weekend Recap
• The Opposite Of Going Pro: Japan’s 2:24:28 Marathoner Remi Nakazato Quits Daihatsu Team To Become Amateur
• Looking For Warm Weather/A Vacation? Go To The Bahamas For The Inaugural World Relays Champs May 24-5 – Tickets Now On Sale

USA Indoor Meet Will Take Place This Weekend – Who Has The Worlds Qualifiers? *Full 2014 USA Indoor Coverage

LRC List Of American Athletes With Qualifying Standard For 2014 USA World Indoors In Poland The USA team for World Indoors will be named this weekend as no chasing of qualifiers is allowed. Who has the qualifying time? Who doesn’t? *Entries

RRWMemories Of Special Double Victory From 2013 Give Will Leer Extra Inspiration For 2014 USA Indoor Meet

• GB And NI Team For 2014 World Indoors Is Announced – Former NCAA Stars Lee Emanuel, Chris O’Hare Make Cut In 1,500
• Iona’s Kate Avery Is Snubbed Because She Didn’t Send An Email Avery didn’t know there was even a chance she’d be considered but now she’s out on a technicality as she didn’t email to ask for permission to skip the UK Trials. Instead, GBR will only send one woman.
• Going, Going, Gone: Britain’s Best Hope For World Indoors Is Out – James Dasaolu Pulls Out Of 60m With Hamstring Injury
  Dasaolu got injured in Birmingham over the weekend.
• Fresh Off A 45.76, Brit Nigel Levine Is Dreaming Of A Medal
• 6,000 Flock To See World Indoor’s ERGO Arena Be Officially Opened